Vasco Rosa Dias is Data Protection Officer (DPO), Lawyer and a Patent and Trademarks Attorney, currently holding the position of DPO at two Portuguese research institutes, INESC TEC and ISPUP. He is also a member of the Ethics Committee of INESC TEC. Vasco integrated the ethics and privacy governance bodies of several EU or international research projects and is a member of the pool of Experts of the European Data Protection Board for new technologies. As a private practitioner he advises on issues mainly related to Intellectual Property, Privacy, and technology transfer. His main topics of interest and research cover the fields of EU law, technology regulation and data protection.